{"id":159434,"date":"2021-12-02T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=159434"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T00:04:43","slug":"usm-bestows-an-honorary-doctorate-on-lee-chong-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=159434","title":{"rendered":"USM bestows an honorary doctorate on Lee Chong Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Hanan Sofiyyah Khairul Anuwar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> KUALA LUMPUR, 3 December 2021: In conjunction with the 58th Convocation of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), national badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei&nbsp;has been conferred an honorary doctorate in sports science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>USM Chancellor, Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Putra Jamalullail conferred the doctorate on Lee at the Green Room, Istana Arau yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee was given the honorary degree for bringing pride to the country as a three-time Olympic silver medalist and his status as a national sports icon, according to USM Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan said .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Lee expressed his gratitude for the honour and stated that he would be happy to collaborate with USM in the field of sports science in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;ve gotten an award like this,&#8221; he added, &#8220;and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how I can utilise my knowledge in this sport to help the university (USM) in the future.&#8221; ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>Source: Bernama<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hanan Sofiyyah Khairul Anuwar KUALA LUMPUR, 3 December 2021: In conjunction with the 58th Convocation of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), national badminton legend Datuk&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":159439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,3,7],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,477],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Capture.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159434"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159444,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159434\/revisions\/159444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}